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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A court in Serbia has convicted and sentenced to prison terms the parents of a teenage boy who shot dead nine pupils and a school guard last year and wounded six more people in primary school in central Belgrade. The shooting in central Belgrade on May 3, 2023, shocked the nation,

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state media say an Italian journalist has been arrested on charges of violating the Islamic Republic’s laws. The state-run IRNA news agency reported Monday that the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which oversees media activity, said in a statement that Cecilia Sala traveled to Iran on Dec.

Associated Press By now you may have found uses for many of the holiday leftovers. But what about that bottle of eggnog in the fridge? Milkshakes! There are a number of flavor variations, and you can go boozy or not. It’s easy to make an eggnog shake. A basic vanilla one requires just vanilla ice

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An opposition politician and several other protesters have been arrested in Kenya during street demonstrations calling for an end to alleged abductions, that have recently targeted young government critics. Senator Okiya Omtatah on Monday had joined hundreds of protesters who sat down in the streets of the capital, Nairobi

AP Technology Writers If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of

Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, setting off sirens late Monday in central areas including Tel Aviv. The Houthis have been firing drones and missiles at Israel, as well as attacking shipping in the Red Sea corridor — attacks they say won’t stop until Israel agrees

Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A hospital in southern Ethiopia says at least 66 people have died after a truck plunged into a river. The accident took place Sunday when an old, overcrowded  truck that was contracted by wedding guests fell off the Gelan Bridge, where villagers said traffic crashes have happened before.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The players in this year’s Army-Navy football game kept up a long tradition, with each side honoring the other’s school song when the contest ended. It was an acknowledgment that the future could bring moments when the opponents that day are teammates on deadlier fields. That ethos also guides a

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials are looking for the cause of a passenger jet crash that killed 179 people, in one of the deadliest disasters in the country’s aviation history. Authorities plan to investigate along with U.S. aviation giant Boeing, which produced the aircraft involved in Sunday’s crash, and also

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter’s memorial journey will end at his house in the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, where he grew up on a peanut farm. That is where his wife, Rosalynn, was laid to rest last year in a burial plot that they chose years ago. But before Carter reaches his

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — Finnish investigators probing the damage to a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables said they found an anchor drag mark on the seabed, apparently from a Russia-linked vessel that has already been seized. The discovery heightened concerns about suspected sabotage by Russia’s “shadow fleet” of fuel tankers — aging

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor has charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes, alleging they kept two young Yazidi girls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them. The man and the woman were arrested in Bavaria in April. According to the prosecutor, they were members of the Islamic State group